Space transportation

“Mars is looking real,” Elon Musk tweeted after testing.

It carries communication satellites Express-80 and Express-103.

The main tasks of a space mission are to find traces of life and test new technique.

The station Tianwen-1 should reach the red planet on February 11, 2021.

Earlier, it was reported that the Japanese launch vehicle H-IIA with the UAE space probe Al Amal for the study of Mars was launched from the site on the island of Tanega-shima.

“It is planned that in the period from the second half of July to the first half of August, the first Chinese mission to explore Mars, Tianwen-1, will be launched,” the release of the CASC says.

This was reported by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.

It was carried out from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk Region.

It will be focused on providing Internet of things.

Beijing called the launch a success.

This was announced on by the portal Deadline, citing sources aware of project.

It is Tianwen, which is translated as Questions to Heaven.